Page visibility.

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  sciencefic · Member · Jul 28, 2015 at 9:58 am

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  I add a new page, select Public, I publish but the page isn’t visible as any kind of button from my home page. Can someone advise me of anything I may have missed? Thanks.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  sciencefic · Member · Jul 28, 2015 at 10:48 am

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  Ah. So I have a menu button. Anyway to make the menu options visible by default rather than having to leap to a new screen?

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  sciencefic · Member · Jul 28, 2015 at 10:49 am

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  Any way to reposition the menu button?

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  comicfic · Member · Aug 11, 2015 at 4:46 pm

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  Still here. The theme I’m using right now is Edin.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Aug 11, 2015 at 4:49 pm

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  @sciencefic
  Please consult the set up instructions for your theme here please https://wordpress.com/themes/edin/

  There is a single page we can post to in any blog and that’s all there is. We can only create the appearance of posting to more than one page.

  You have two choices on any blog
  (1) All posts on the front page.
  (2) A static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.

  By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.

  So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.

  You need to be aware that:

  1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.

  3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.

  So the process you need to use is:

  • Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  • Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
  • Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus
  • Create pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  • Add any custom links and other items like static pages into your custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links and https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
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  thistimethisspace · Member · Aug 11, 2015 at 4:51 pm

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  re: my pages aren’t appearing

  Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ first.
  They must be public pages – not private and not drafts.
  Public – The page will be visible to everyone.
  Protected – The page is protected with a password you set. Only people who have the password can view a protected page.
  Private – Pages are only visible to blog Editors and Administrators. Private pages are not visible in Reader, feeds, or in any search. A page can be private without being password protected.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

  See also:
  Creating a Custom Menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu
  Adding Pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-pages
  Changing the Order & Creating Sub-Menus http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  If you do not succeed then we need to know what the title of the missing and/or URL of the missing Page or sub-page is.

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  comicfic · Member · Aug 11, 2015 at 5:30 pm

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  Thanks for all this. I’m assuming that there’s no way to shift the Edin menu location onto the header image. Is this correct?

  Regarding the Ecto theme, how in tarnation do I get rid of the word ‘widgets’ from the menu button? Tried looking at the site theme. So far best I can do is ‘Menu & Widgets’.

  Cheers.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Aug 13, 2015 at 4:12 pm

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  Hi there,

  I’m assuming that there’s no way to shift the Edin menu location onto the header image. Is this correct?

  The Edin menu is designed to appear alongside your site’s title, like on the Edin demo site. There isn’t a built-in way to move it onto the header image. (It may be possible to customize that part of the theme’s layout using Custom CSS, which is included in the Premium plan, but the theme isn’t designed for it.)

  Regarding the Ecto theme, how in tarnation do I get rid of the word ‘widgets’ from the menu button? Tried looking at the site theme. So far best I can do is ‘Menu & Widgets’.

  The Ecto theme is designed to show your menu and widgets in that slide-out sidebar area. If you remove all of the widgets from the sidebar, so it only has a menu in it, the button will only say “Menu.”

  Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)